About

As you have already guessed, my name is Jason Fuller. I currently live in Florence, AL where I graduated from the University of North Alabama Art Department with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art in 2001. I am originally from Tuscumbia, a neighboring town that you may have heard of as the birthplace of Helen Keller. It has recently been featured in magazines like Southern Living for its quaint charm and recent growth.

About

This small town life tends to play a part in some of my artwork, especially my paintings. But I am not yet ready to focus on one subject with my art as it would mean ruling out too many other passions. As an artist, I see many things that move me and feel the need to capture them all in different ways at times. I want to be able to work proficiently enough that- when a certain media is needed to express a specific mood, emotion, or effect-I am able to pick it up and work in it. I know that this may take a while and cause my art career to move more slowly, but that is a small price to pay for doing something in the way you feel led to do it. I cannot push away the comic art that I enjoyed as a child(which got me started in art in the first place) any more than I can fight a connection to new bales of hay along a countryside road that keep me warmly connected to my roots in rural Alabama.

The Art of Learning

As I mentioned,I am a native of Tuscumbia, Alabama. I lived in a rural area surrounding this quaint, small town and developed a taste and love for art early in life. My first art experience was drawing an overly muscular action figure, sparking an interest in illustration and human form, which manifested itself in less than a deeply perceptive manner. I continued to draw these kinds of action drawings-along with portraits and other realistic subjects- all through high school. I received some training there in our school art program, awarding me a scholarship that helped me go on to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art from the University of North Alabama in Florence. The professors there were able to find my strengths and redirect me to add training to the illustrative, detail-attentive style that I had loved all my life.

Direction Onward

Through starting on one end of art and training toward another, I developed a broad range of interests that I am now able to express though various media. Pencil, pen and ink, acrylic, oil, photography, and computer imaging are my mainstays, although experimentation to find the unique is most fun. I usually find that my paintings and pastels are used more to express my feelings on certain areas of life. As most artists, I paint or draw subjects that move me- musical themes, simple life or third-world country life, and immortalizing that which is soon leaving this world. Maybe I see the latter as a kind act for an unsuspecting subject. The aforementioned categories are generally done naturalistically, although I feel that my expression of music tends to be more ethereal or abstract. A mission trip to Guatemala moved me for poverty-stricken nations and has been a reoccurring theme since. I have also developed a love for photography, having interests in subjects from flora and fauna to portrait to abstract.